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in key swing states obama's been spending more than romney. mitt romney, as we know, received a big boost from super pacs and it's possible in coming years campaigns could look a lot more like those super pac spending machines. in a new atlantic article, james bennet look at foot soldiers fighting to eliminate all campaign financial restrictions and predict in a couple of years politicians will push to abolish contribution limits and allow candidates to accept and spend unlimited amounts from any source. his article is the cover story in the october issue of "the atlantic." james bennet joins us now from washington. how are you? >> good, thanks. thanks for having me on. >> thanks for being here. a fascinating article that people should check out. part of what you do is trace the longer history, not the past few years. outside spending has mounted. but go back to early 1900s, where you argue there was a real drum beat of incremental campaign finance reform from limiting what certain entities and unions and corporations could do to ultimately, a
in key swing states obama's been spending more than romney. mitt romney, as we know, received a big boost from super pacs and it's possible in coming years campaigns could look a lot more like those super pac spending machines. in a new atlantic article, james bennet look at foot soldiers fighting to eliminate all campaign financial restrictions and predict in a couple of years politicians will push to abolish contribution limits and allow candidates to accept and spend unlimited amounts from...
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we know who obama is as well. he is against tax breaks for the rich, so this -- trotting out this redistribution thing is not changing anything. it's not changing the conversation at all. really, nothing reeks more of desperation and a lack of ideas and a fear of what has been introduced to the race than pulling out a 14-year-old video from when he was a state senator. the romney tape is from may. this is you campaigning right now. >> but the obama campaign has been rolling out very old tapes of romney from massachusetts as well. so you'd have to by that logic assume that desperation on both counts. >> i think the point here is that -- to go another sentence deep in that quote we didn't play there, he's talking about how we need to do in a way that promotes competition in the private sector. he was saying was totally consistent with a very centrist message. it was consistent with what the democratic party did in the 1990s in response to the success of the republican party and the conservative movement in the 1818
we know who obama is as well. he is against tax breaks for the rich, so this -- trotting out this redistribution thing is not changing anything. it's not changing the conversation at all. really, nothing reeks more of desperation and a lack of ideas and a fear of what has been introduced to the race than pulling out a 14-year-old video from when he was a state senator. the romney tape is from may. this is you campaigning right now. >> but the obama campaign has been rolling out very old...
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today was president obama's turn. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is standing by with details on what happened. brianna. >> reporter: hi, wolf. the topic of immigration dominated this forum. president obama saying his biggest failure has been not getting comprehensive immigration reform done. but he said it wasn't for lack of trying or desire. and he blamed congressional republicans. as president obama courted the hispanic vote in a forum on the spanish language univision network, he got some tough questions. co-host jorge ramos asked about his 2008 pledge to tackle immigration reform in his first term. >> this is very important. i don't want it to get lost in translation. you promised that. and a promise is a promise. and with all due respect, but you didn't keep that promise. >> i did not make a promise that i would get everything done 100% when i was elected as president. what i promised was that i would work every single day as hard as i can to make sure that everybody in this country regardless of wh
today was president obama's turn. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is standing by with details on what happened. brianna. >> reporter: hi, wolf. the topic of immigration dominated this forum. president obama saying his biggest failure has been not getting comprehensive immigration reform done. but he said it wasn't for lack of trying or desire. and he blamed congressional republicans. as president obama courted the hispanic vote in a forum on the spanish language univision...
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and barack obama is laying that out. they're calling him names that don't stick because they have no basis in fact. >> there they go again. anyway, thank you, senator chuck schumer of new york. joining me is pulitzer prize writer, eugene robinson from "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst. why are we hearing about a 14-year-old audiotape of an event held in public out in but steak and everyone hates it when their steak doe it o now because romney's in trouble. it's very clear, not just from the polling, from the reaction to the 47% speech that -- so whatever they got, i think they're going to pull out and use. >> this idea that obama's in trouble because he does believe in some redistribution. well, the medicare, with drugs, with prescription drugs, that's some redistribution. head start is some redistribution. paying policeman in a tough neighborhood to deal with the bad guys, that's some redistribution. every time a dollar is passed from one person to another, that's redistribution. what is he -- why is he
and barack obama is laying that out. they're calling him names that don't stick because they have no basis in fact. >> there they go again. anyway, thank you, senator chuck schumer of new york. joining me is pulitzer prize writer, eugene robinson from "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst. why are we hearing about a 14-year-old audiotape of an event held in public out in but steak and everyone hates it when their steak doe it o now because romney's in trouble. it's...
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, president obama was calling him the grandfather of obama care. that was unlike anything we heard him say in the campaign that derived obama care and will repeal it gday one. the campaign insists we were joking and have it all wrong. >> you know, peter, i tend to think anything that happens less than seven weeks before people vote in a presidential election is not by accident and that candidates don't tend to joke about things like that. i want to ask one more thing about the psyche of the romney campaign, since you're down there with them. how do they balance what has clearly been a bad week, by any objective measure, and a bad couple weeks by any objective measure. acknowledging that with not dwelling in it, with not feeding more fuel to that fire with trying to move on, are they just ignoring the last week and just saying it starts today? >> reporter: it's a good question. remember before the 47% video came out on monday, the conversation that ed gillespie held was, we begin to reset now. we're on -- i'm not sure what number reset ultimately as
, president obama was calling him the grandfather of obama care. that was unlike anything we heard him say in the campaign that derived obama care and will repeal it gday one. the campaign insists we were joking and have it all wrong. >> you know, peter, i tend to think anything that happens less than seven weeks before people vote in a presidential election is not by accident and that candidates don't tend to joke about things like that. i want to ask one more thing about the psyche of...
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. >> the church lets people know what its pastor thinks of barack obama. the bible verse reads, "let his days be few and let another take his office." jones is a serial provocateur. he has caused uproar by burning copies of the koran. he has also dug a grave and directed a tombstone for president barack obama. for his presidency, jones points out in the fine print. all the attention has led jones and his associates to take precautions. he carries a pistol, and his bodyguard does as well. >> with the amount of death threats that we have received and the rewards that are on our lives, i think it is only wise to send that type of message, yes. >> the pastor will not show was inside the church. he said he would rather show off his studio in the basement where he and his associates film anti- islam videos. the men here in this florida basement stay in touch and collaborate with others all over the world. it is a loose knit group, held together by hate for islam. >> in the united states, there is a cottage industry of islamaphobes. in southern california, there
. >> the church lets people know what its pastor thinks of barack obama. the bible verse reads, "let his days be few and let another take his office." jones is a serial provocateur. he has caused uproar by burning copies of the koran. he has also dug a grave and directed a tombstone for president barack obama. for his presidency, jones points out in the fine print. all the attention has led jones and his associates to take precautions. he carries a pistol, and his bodyguard does...
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that figure was not going into obama care. that is what it would save with obama care from the savings from the course of health care. you keep saying, and it is the second morning in a row i have been sitting here watching this tv with the republican saying nonsense about the $700 millio billion. it is a savings. with the obama care in place we will save $19 billion over 10 years. host: thank you. guest: this is in some sense as a medical argument. it is a savings. -- a semantical argument. that savings plus 600 billion in new taxes are what finance that. it is one thing to save money and leave it in the system, in other words not using it up for a brand new program. the country is already running trillion dollar deficits. the largest that that any single president has racked up in a single term. yet we're talking about a brand new expansion of entitlements. that is done by reforms in medicare that divert money that otherwise would go there, someplace else, and 600 billion in new taxes. you can describe it how you want, but b
that figure was not going into obama care. that is what it would save with obama care from the savings from the course of health care. you keep saying, and it is the second morning in a row i have been sitting here watching this tv with the republican saying nonsense about the $700 millio billion. it is a savings. with the obama care in place we will save $19 billion over 10 years. host: thank you. guest: this is in some sense as a medical argument. it is a savings. -- a semantical argument....
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obama leading by 43%. in wisconsin. mitt romney at 40%. so, when you lock at those numbers, don't you think there could be some down ballot effect? meaning affecting tommy thompson race? >> look, every state is different. i can tell you that in new hampshire, the governor's race is being boosted by a strong romney race, which is now ahead of obama. so every state's got to look and deal with their issues. separately. i'm not going to get into individual senate races around the country. i'm here to talk about what's wrong with america with the president that's failed his people and with a president who is now scrambling to define some kind of a policy that makes some sense with the horrible economic situation that we have. >> i know you keep trying to make this a go on the economy. i understand the frustration. >> you don't think it is? erin, how can you tell me it's not the economy? >> i'm not saying it's not. i'm not disagreeing with you on that, i'm saying that hasn't been the issue that has gotten all of the discussion, o on this, the 47
obama leading by 43%. in wisconsin. mitt romney at 40%. so, when you lock at those numbers, don't you think there could be some down ballot effect? meaning affecting tommy thompson race? >> look, every state is different. i can tell you that in new hampshire, the governor's race is being boosted by a strong romney race, which is now ahead of obama. so every state's got to look and deal with their issues. separately. i'm not going to get into individual senate races around the country. i'm...
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do you have any idea what president obama plans to do on day one? i know he's given speeches but you don't have a sense of why he wants-- what is he burning to do? and romney is so lost that-- and you can see it with all these things have happened. he's pretending to be someone he's not. charlie, you and i could have a conversation for two hours and have a conversation about this subject. relations between jews and arabs is a very sensitive subject. we could talk about this for two hours and i would never get in trouble. i would never cross the line because my feelings about that is i don't know what i think and why i think it. romney, the reason he keeps falling out of the ring is that's what happens when you're pretending to be something you're not. there's nothing organic about any of this and you could see it at the republican convention. it was very obvious to me. he is renting this party to fulfill his dream to become president and they're renting him to get rid of barack obama. but there is no organic connection. how many republicans have you
do you have any idea what president obama plans to do on day one? i know he's given speeches but you don't have a sense of why he wants-- what is he burning to do? and romney is so lost that-- and you can see it with all these things have happened. he's pretending to be someone he's not. charlie, you and i could have a conversation for two hours and have a conversation about this subject. relations between jews and arabs is a very sensitive subject. we could talk about this for two hours and i...
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she is on our way to meet president obama and receive one of the nation's highest civilian honor. she was under house arrest in burma when she was originally awarded the congressional gold medal back in 2008. >> the u.s. space shuttle endeavor is on route to retire at a california museum. its spending night in houston, texas, after taking off from florida. it will finish its journey in los angeles where it will permanently go on display. >> arctic ice has melted to a record low. scientists say summarize at the north pole is the thinnest it has ever been since satellite data collection began. researchers warn the decline will trigger more extreme global weather. many put it down to man-made global warming. >> unfortunate. >> with all of the attention on the eurozone crisis and questions about a future for the european project tummy may be surprised european union is moving ahead with expanding. >> croatia is set to join the european union next july and has been making moves to meet the necessary requirements. this week, the government slashed benefits for public- sector employees i
she is on our way to meet president obama and receive one of the nation's highest civilian honor. she was under house arrest in burma when she was originally awarded the congressional gold medal back in 2008. >> the u.s. space shuttle endeavor is on route to retire at a california museum. its spending night in houston, texas, after taking off from florida. it will finish its journey in los angeles where it will permanently go on display. >> arctic ice has melted to a record low....
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the latest pew poll has romney down 8 and president obama up 8. but at the same time gallup showing it within a point on a national basis and rasmussen comes out which shows romney up 1 point in the swing states. i'm so confused. i don't understand this. how can it be in the rasmussen shows romney up 2 nationally. how can he have him up and pew has him down 8 and the swing states are neck and neck. >> i wouldn't even be looking at the national trend polls. first all they don't matter that much. and they are also close. we know it's going to be a close race. megyn: the mainstream media is telling us it's not. they are telling us romney is dead. >> where it's not looking so close is the swing states where the polling does matter. if you look at polls in ohio and virginia, in the states where this will get decided. nationally he could move up 4 points in california. who cares. it's 10% of the country -- megyn: californians and new yorkers and the blue people come out and say yes, yes yes. even fox news had a poll out that showed a big lead for presid
the latest pew poll has romney down 8 and president obama up 8. but at the same time gallup showing it within a point on a national basis and rasmussen comes out which shows romney up 1 point in the swing states. i'm so confused. i don't understand this. how can it be in the rasmussen shows romney up 2 nationally. how can he have him up and pew has him down 8 and the swing states are neck and neck. >> i wouldn't even be looking at the national trend polls. first all they don't matter that...
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"the obama hate machine" the koch brothers use all of their money to try to defeat barack obama. what a difference. >> isn't bill gates giving all of his money away? >> that's why his net worth has gone down. they're giving so much of their money away. >> it wasn't very kind to call him a loser. >> many in l.a. are excited for the arrival of the space shuttle "endeavour" as it heads to the museum there environmentalists are in an uproar. the shuttle arrives at the l.a. airport and then it will be transported on a big trailer on city streets to the california science center. cbs tells us that in order to make the trip through the city, they're cutting down over 100 trees on major roadways so the kings of the shuttle will fit on the road. the science center, however, has promised to plant four new trees for every one tree it cuts down. 78-foot wide retired space orbiter will take a 12 mile drive through the city. >> bill: i have to tell you. when i was in l.a., i was a member of the board of an organization, great organization, still going called tree people. and we planted -- >> o
"the obama hate machine" the koch brothers use all of their money to try to defeat barack obama. what a difference. >> isn't bill gates giving all of his money away? >> that's why his net worth has gone down. they're giving so much of their money away. >> it wasn't very kind to call him a loser. >> many in l.a. are excited for the arrival of the space shuttle "endeavour" as it heads to the museum there environmentalists are in an uproar. the shuttle...
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many of obama's critics call it socialism. romney's running mate, paul ryan. >> president obama said that he believes in redistribution. mitt romney and i are not running to redistribute the wealth. mitt romney and i are running to help americans create wealth. >> so what is redistribution anyway? it basically means using the progressive income tax system to raise money from the wealthy and use it to invest in things loik public works, education and aid for the poor. mr. obama puts it this way. quote, there's nothing wrong with us giving each other a helping hand. still to be decided, how voters will come down on redistribution versus 47%. so thealk back question of this morning, is the redistribution of wealth the answer to our economic woes? facebook.com/carolcnn. your responses, later this hour. >> house committee will grill the man who investigated that botched gun trafficking program, fast and furious. you know what it's called. lawmakers say there's a lot more work to be done despite the length of that report. 471 pages.
many of obama's critics call it socialism. romney's running mate, paul ryan. >> president obama said that he believes in redistribution. mitt romney and i are not running to redistribute the wealth. mitt romney and i are running to help americans create wealth. >> so what is redistribution anyway? it basically means using the progressive income tax system to raise money from the wealthy and use it to invest in things loik public works, education and aid for the poor. mr. obama puts...
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that's something obama's bad, obama's bad. you've got to vote against obama and not giving the voters anything of himself. and the other night in that clip that we showed, it's been shown endlessly, the lack of optimism in governor romney's voice, in his behavior, i think affects a lot of people who might be inclined to vote for someone else other than obama. very negatively. >> that's a great point, mike. and again, we said it yesterday, if you look at -- and i'll say the names again. i know it drives people crazy on the left, but it's the truth. if you listen to what margaret thatcher said when she took control of the conservative party in '75, what ronald reagan said his entire life, they believe the conservative message helped the 100%. they believed that's how you got people out of the unemployment lines, how you got the working poor back to work with better jobs. and mitt romney just sounded so negative talking about the 47%, writing it off. forget the faux pas. i'm more concerned, as is daniel h heninger in "the wall st
that's something obama's bad, obama's bad. you've got to vote against obama and not giving the voters anything of himself. and the other night in that clip that we showed, it's been shown endlessly, the lack of optimism in governor romney's voice, in his behavior, i think affects a lot of people who might be inclined to vote for someone else other than obama. very negatively. >> that's a great point, mike. and again, we said it yesterday, if you look at -- and i'll say the names again. i...
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president obama, stop leading from behind. president obama, lead an effort. right in our military faces devastating cuts that your own secretary of defense said we'd be shooting ourselves in the head, that webbed undermining our national security for generations. we heard what's happed happening in the world. lead, be the commander in chief. your leadership has been absent. you have been awol on this critical issue and our troops and nation deserves better. the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham: lucky you to be president today. we live in interesting times. you could receive the nobel peace prize for not being somebody else. four years later almost after the nobel peace prize has been awarded, where do we stand as a nation? osama bin laden is dead. that's good. that's a great accomplishment. the president should take plied in that. we should all celebrate the death of that evil man. but that's a -- that's not a foreign policy. is anybody deterred from attacking america in the middle east because bin laden is dead? has anybody said
president obama, stop leading from behind. president obama, lead an effort. right in our military faces devastating cuts that your own secretary of defense said we'd be shooting ourselves in the head, that webbed undermining our national security for generations. we heard what's happed happening in the world. lead, be the commander in chief. your leadership has been absent. you have been awol on this critical issue and our troops and nation deserves better. the presiding officer: the senator...
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president obama and romney hitting the campaign trail today in florida. both focusing on immigration. and a new fox poll, it shows that the president has a lead over romney and florida, ohio and the state of virginia. he is leading by five percentage points in florida. president obama is at 48%, romney 46%. connell: let's look at the price of oil. this is the weekly chart. this could be one of the biggest campaign issues. we started the week with $100 oil. it is now below $92. senior vice president of the derivative of trinh group. we will talk more about this. >> not until the guy at the gas pump gets rid of all the gas he has already purchased and that tank. those things will calm down lower than they go up. ultimately, they will follow that oil price. we will not see this oil price go a lot lower. connell: we have 384. we have 3.84 on the screen as an average gas price. now, i want to know, a year ago, where will we be on election day? there was a prediction around an all-time election day hi. 3.43. do you think that would come down from where we are n
president obama and romney hitting the campaign trail today in florida. both focusing on immigration. and a new fox poll, it shows that the president has a lead over romney and florida, ohio and the state of virginia. he is leading by five percentage points in florida. president obama is at 48%, romney 46%. connell: let's look at the price of oil. this is the weekly chart. this could be one of the biggest campaign issues. we started the week with $100 oil. it is now below $92. senior vice...
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that is what president obama did when condemning the anti-islam it issues. six days after 9/11, 11 years ago this week, president bush visited the islamic center in washington, d.c., to make it clear that our fight was with al qaeda and not american muslims. the face of terror is not the true face of islam. that is not what it is about. i have that political differences with president bush and have said that on many occasions, but i believe that his reaction help stop the anti- muslim backlash after 9/11 because he spoke out so quickly. i am sorry to see that the leaders are failing to follow his example and the example of president obama. they have gone so far as to question the loyalty of american muslims serving in the obama administration. this is inconsistent with our heritage as a diverse nation of immigrants. most americans recognize that our diversity is our strength. our fellow citizens. when did we senate rushed into the bullets, he was not questioning first the religion of the victims. he knew they needed help, and he responded. in conclusion, i h
that is what president obama did when condemning the anti-islam it issues. six days after 9/11, 11 years ago this week, president bush visited the islamic center in washington, d.c., to make it clear that our fight was with al qaeda and not american muslims. the face of terror is not the true face of islam. that is not what it is about. i have that political differences with president bush and have said that on many occasions, but i believe that his reaction help stop the anti- muslim backlash...